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Sometimes message pane box got blank on one or two of the messages. I tried disabling hardware acceleration, did not help. I can clear by restarting Thunderbird. What is causing this? I am on a Mac M2 processor.

I have come across some people who ask about the thickness of scrollbars.

Do you find the scrollbars are just too thin and difficult to select because your eyesight is not so good or maybe you have less ease in controlling the mouse? If yes then the following information may be of help.

Hello My wife was writing a long email and saved at regular intervals. Today my wife asked where here email, in drafts, was as she could only find one with a few characters for the message .... it's possible that she has blank the whole draft at some point and hence the saved draft with just 3 characters. Is there anyway to access the previosuly saved versions? Even if she could access one which only had 3/4 or 1/2 of what she typed it would help .... I feel that the lastest version of the saved message is all she has ?? Anyone know different? Many thanks in anticipation Neill

Guten Tag, ich arbeite mit Thunderbird auf Linux Mint. Jeweils in den aktuellsten Versionen: Linux Mint 22.1 Cinnamon Thunderbird 128.11.0esr (64-Bit)

Auf meinem bisherigen Rechner begann Thunderbird mit dem letzten Upgrade von Linux Mint langsamer zu laufen. Da ich mir nicht anders zu helfen wusste, habe ich in einen neuen Computer investiert. Obwohl der Rechner jetzt deutlich performanter sein sollte, hängt Thunderbird mindestens genauso wie vorher. Zum Teil ruft Thunderbird auf dem neuen Rechner auch keine neuen E-Mails mehr ab. Ein Neustart korrigiert das zwar wieder, aber beim nächsten Start kann es dann wieder genauso sein.

Alles, was man in den Foren findet, um Thunderbird schneller zu machen, habe ich erledigt. Cache gelöscht, im abgesicherten Modus gestartet (da ist Thunderbird genauso langsam). Auch verschieben von Nachrichten in Archivordner brachte keine wirkliche Besserung.

Ich nutze Thunderbird für 7 Kalender (zum Teil lokal) und 10 E-Mail-Adressen bei unterschiedlichen Anbietern.

Als Add-on habe ich DKIM Verifyer installiert und aktiv.

Ehrlich gesagt, bin ich inzwischen ziemlich verzweifelt, was das Thema angeht. Witzigerweise lassen sich die Entwicklerwerkzeuge nicht aufrufen. Keine Ahnung, ob das vielleicht ein Indiz für den Fehler sein könnte.

Hat jemand eine Idee? Oder noch Fragen?

Herzlichen Dank.

I'am unable to add new contact to address book. I enter all the details but there is no "SAVE" button to apply. I have uninstalled and re- installed several times but the panel to add a new contact still has no SAVE button. I've istalled from Thunderbird official site and Microsoft. I have run in Trouble Shooting Mode, but still same problem. What's going on ????????????? Brian

I am having some trouble getting Thunderbird to display all my messages. I tried troubleshooting mode and found that all the messages were displayed. Restarting in normal mode having disabled my extensions and hardware acceleration, the problem returned and I could not see most of my messages. So I need to make the other changes that troubleshooting mode makes. These are described at https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/troubleshoot-mode-thunderbird as

• Window and sidebar size and position settings (described in terms of Firefox)
• userChrome and userContent customizations ; see userChrome.css and .js and userContent are unsupported

I do not understand what these are and how I can set them for routine use. Can someone point me to an explanation? Thanks.

Unable to receive new emails sending works fine. Receiving emails works with no security but do not wish to continue with this mode. No errors for ssl/tls, just doesn't receive emails. I tried switching to oAuth2 but no go either. Version: 128.10.2esr. This started on the 21st of May.

I'm trying to add a colored border to an image inserted into the body of an email. I use the Advanced Image Editor and select the HTML Attributes tab. I select "border" from the Attributes dropdown menu and then add "6px red" as the value. This generates a 6px black border, but does not accept the color (or other) value.

How do I modify other values of the border? Is there a tutorial somewhere on using the Advanced Image Editor?

When I click on an email in my mail 'inbox', items open in a 'send' window? Why don't they open into a 'read' window? Why are emails opened with red outline boxes and largely inaccessible? Can you help? Must I reload Thunderbird and Firefox? Are there tweaks that I am missing. I have spent several hours trying to sort this out, so far no luck!! Can you help?

Can emails written be delayed in sending - this may be important in writing to different world time zones preventing email to be received by recipients at night times or hoidays.

My Thunderbird v.139.0.1 crashed. It would not run at all. I downloaded Thunderbird and it was v.139.0.2. It looks entirely different and created a new profile. I edited the Profiles.ini and replaced the new profile with the old profile. (this worked 2 months ago when I bought a new computer). Now having done the editing to get all my old emails etc, it will not bring up the old profile. How do I get my old profile and the setup from the 139.0.1 look and feel. Thanks.....

I recently installed Thunderbird on a new Windows 11 PC. I am using Thunderbird 128.11.0esr on another machine and it works properly. I attempted to clone my 128 setup onto the new machiine by copying the Profile folder without success. Some settings were transferred, enough so that the inbox was filling with my emails. I tried to send a message. It failed with the message: "Sending of the message failed The message could not be send because the connection to Outgoing server (SMTP) smtp.gmail.com times out. Try again" As far as I can tell the SMPT server settings are exactly the same on the two setups: Description: Gmail Port: 587 Connection security: STARTTLS Authentication methon: OAuth2 Username TMerrillH Sending GMail using the GMail app works properly. Could it be something in the OAuth2 system?

I can't seem to get the search message window to shrink down with the right click commands, nor with the arrows at the edges of the window, this has been going on since the beginning of 128 . . .

Group contacts have been established and the group is listed in the Address page. An email is prepared and the group name is inserted in the bcc slot. An x appears to the left of the group name. The Send button is grayed out and the email can't be sent. What is the problem?

Version 128.11.0esr (64-bit) Tbird won't download emails from server. I get a bunch of status messages at the bottom left of the screen: looking up server, connecting, checking server capabilities, etc, then everything just stops. No downloads. If I access this account via webmail, there *are* emails there that Tbird just won't download. No error messages of any kind, just those status messages in that bar along the bottom of the window. All appears well... but no messages.

On the sending sider, I can't send anything from the account either (image attached.) So there appears to be both a connection error (sending) and NO connection error (receiving.) Got me chasing my own tail in circles - - tried a couple of different email apps and they're all working as they should, same settings, both send and receive. I've never used anything other than Thunderbird and REALLY don't want to change, but if it isn't working, looks like I'll have to, like it or not. Any ideas gratefully received!

Move Thunderbird data to a new computer

I have the complete Thunderbird folder with 15 years of POP mail.

Install Thunderbird on new PC and overwrite the complete folder?

will be the same version of thunderbird.

I used ImportExportTools NG to export messages from one profile and import to another.

I tried to export only selected messages from my one of my local folders (it seemed an option, but IET NG is not intuitive).

Whatever, the import process has created a sub-folder in the local folder of the same name, and there is a huge redundancy (duplication) resulting.

My question: how can I merge the sub-folder into the parent, when dragging and dropping is not allowed?